[Python-Dev] Discussion on adding rsplit() for strings and unicode objects. (original) (raw)
Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 23 03:46:18 EDT 2003
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On Monday 22 September 2003 06:56 pm, Barry Scott wrote:
>I'm all for it. I've had to implement rsplit on my own as well, and > always lamented (but never did anything, unfortunately) about its lack in > the standard library. That strings have rfind, rindex, rstrip, and > rjust, but not rsplit always seemed somewhat less than complete to me.
These "r" are not a single family... some mean reverse some mean right.
??? They are:
[x for x in dir('') if x[:1]=='r'] ['replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rstrip']
'replace' is clearly distinct from the other (it's not an 'eplace' from the right:-). All others can be read as "from the right" (reading them as "reverse" is very obviously strained). Find and Index the rightmost occurrence, right-justify, strip characters from the right of the string.
Alex
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